The file contains the minutes of the meeting (chairman: Bernard Pottier). Included are the agenda and working documents for the meeting including reports, correspondence, the research project ‘Division for higher education and research’ by the Council of Europe, conference programmes, minutes of meetings, letters, the minutes of the meeting of the sub-committee for archaeology (5-6/04/1984), report by Pierre Lardet and the Council of Europe research project ‘Division for higher education and research’, minutes of the Standing Committee for Social Sciences meeting.

Topics discussed include: structure of Finnish research in the humanities; membership of the committee; additional activities (Byzantine studies, Chinese studies, Comparative studies on governments and non-dominant ethnic groups (1850-1940); the sub-committee for Archaeology; the project ‘Manuscripts and Technology’; conferences on Tropes; seminars on Biblical studies; on Nationalism and on the Discovery of America; activities of the standing committee for the Social Sciences; proposals by the ESF board for the Standing Committee and other projects such as the ‘creation/fortification of scientific networks’ elaborated by the Council of Europe.

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